When Olympia Rubinstein's twin daughters are invited to a debutante ball, chaos erupts. One twin and Olympia's ex-husband are anxious to go, while the other twin and Olympia's current husband refuse to go.
New York (State)
- Author:Steel, DanielleSummary:
- Author:Woods, StuartSummary:
Following a productive trip to Bel Air, Stone Barrington is back in Manhattan. But just after he settles in, he's paid a visit by his friend and sometimes-lover, CIA assistant director Holly Barker. Together they investigate a...
- Author:AviSummary:
In 1893 New York, thirteen-year-old Maks, a newsboy, teams up with Willa, a homeless girl, to clear his older sister, Emma, from charges that she stole from the brand new Waldorf Hotel, where she works. Includes historical notes.
- Author:Newman, Katherine S.Summary:
Now that the welfare system has been largely dismantled, the fate of America's poor depends on what happens to them in the low-wage labor market. In this timely volume, Katherine S. Newman explores whether the poorest workers and...
- Author:Price-Thompson, TracySummary:
Juanita and her best friend Scooter are both frustrated in life and love--Juanita because her light skin makes it tough to fit in, and Scooter because he is gay. When they meet two fine-looking Puerto Rican men, their lives head down...
- Author:Myles, EileenSummary:
Available once again for a new generation of readers, the groundbreaking and candid coming-of-age novel in-real-time from one of America's most celebrated poets that is considered a cult classic.
In this...
- Author:Weisberger, LaurenSummary:
As three best friends approach the age of thirty, they agree to change their lives in the most personal and dramatic way possible -- and within one calendar year.
- Author:Rowson, Susanna HaswellSummary:
- Author:Caunitz, William J.Summary:
When a young police officer is shot and killed in his girlfriend's apartment in Washington Heights, investigators suspect that he had been taking money from the Dominican drug gangs that rule the neighborhood. An ambitious female deputy...
- Author:Robb, J. D.Summary:
Lieutenant Eve Dallas is no party girl, but she's managing to have a reasonably good time at the celebrity-packed bash celebrating The Icove Agenda, a film based on one of her famous cases. It's a little spooky seeing the...
- Author:DeMille, NelsonSummary:
St. Patrick's Day, New York City. Everyone is celebrating, but everyone is in for a shock. Born into the heat and hatred of the Northern Ireland conflict, IRA man Brian Flynn has masterminded a brilliant terrorist act: the seizure of...
- Author:De Jonge, PeterSummary:
After an elderly man with encroaching Alzheimer's disease confesses to his home attendant that as a long-ago junkie and petty thief he killed his partner in crime, police from the NYPD reluctantly dig up the community garden where...
- Author:Block, LawrenceSummary:
This first outing for the Greenwich Village burglar finds Bernie set up for a fall when a simple job turns out to involve murder and the conveniently timed arrival of the cops.
- Author:Lyons, CJSummary:
After the deranged lunatic who murdered Sarah Durandt's husband and son is executed, Sarah returns to her home in the Adirondacks in hopes of achieving some measure of closure. But once there, Sarah is forced to face a nightmarish...
- Author:Bunkley, Anita R.Summary:
This is the tale of Broadway star Niya Londres, who is planning her extravagant Acapulco wedding. But there's one problem. Niya hasn't said "yes" yet--to any of the three men who've popped the question.
- Author:Sweet, MelissaSummary:
Presents a tribute to the creator of the giant balloons that fill the sky during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, tracing the work of artist Tony Sarg, whose innovative "upside-down puppet" creations have become the...
- Author:Tanenbaum, RobertSummary:
While Butch and Marlene work to convict the parents of a deceased boy whose health was neglected in favor of a charismatic faith healer, Karp struggles to prevent a violent attack on New York City with the help of an imprisoned Russian...
- Author:Gaitskill, MarySummary:
These powerful stories about dislocation, longing, and desire depict a disenchanted and rebellious urban-fringe generation as it searches for human connection.
- Author:Jackson, BrendaSummary:
In Jamaica for a well-deserved vacation, city planner Darcy Owens is stunned by the sight of a chocolate-skinned god in the distance. Upon closer inspection, however, it turns out this dream man is York Ellis, an arrogant ex-cop--and...
- Author:Schreiber, JoeSummary:
Perry's parents insist that he take Gobi, their quiet, Lithuanian exchange student, to senior prom but after an incident at the dance he learns that Gobi is actually a trained assassin who needs him as a henchman, behind the wheel...